Brief Author Bio:

Amy Guth is digital coordinator for books at the Chicago Tribune and writes the local literary blog, Chicago Subtext for the Tribune's Chicago Now blog network, where she is also the Life & Style community manager.

She is author of the novel "Three Fallen Women" (2006) and is included in the anthology "What Happened to us These Last Couple of Years?" Her short fiction piece, "Feet In Socks" was was named among StorySouth's notable stories and was a Million Writers Award nominee.

Guth has spoken at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Decatur Book Festival, the (Downtown) Omaha Lit Fest and The Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival and, in 2007, founded Pilcrow Lit Fest, a local small press literary festival.

Previously, Guth served as managing editor for literary magazine The Complete Meal, she co-wrote several sketch productions at Second City's training center and other improv venues, including "Anton Chekhov's Bastard Child" which ran in Chicago from 2002-4. Guth also served as assistant fiction editor at 42 Opus, and founded and curated Chicago's Fixx Reading Series.

Please find her at @amyguth on Twitter.